A great leader cannot worry about being well liked.

I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment.

I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric.

It is good to be different, because difference is great; that's what this music is based on. But lose that energy between the audience and the players, and you have nothing.

Let us love and let it be the purpose of our life.

You can kill a book quicker by your silence than by a bad review.

For years, Mount Holyoke professor Joseph 'Full Metal Jacket' Ellis had been regaling students, interviewers and friends with gripping stories of his service in Vietnam.

Fancy Restaurant: one that serves cold soup on purpose.

Art is an indecent exposure of the consciousness.

When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.

You've got first-generation Americans here who are going to be poorer than their parents. That's never happened in the States before, and it's going to have massive social repercussions here.

Finance that only talks to itself & deals with each other becomes socially useless

Peas baffled me. I could not understand why grown-ups would take things that tasted so good raw, and then put them in tins, and make them revolting.

There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.